Working on this is a real headache to me...
This will be a very geeky post, but just check out that code i found in the .jsp of one of the applications i’m currently working on.
It’s not an auto-generated jsp, it is like this in production…
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Not being any racist or sectary or saying that we French people code better… but this piece of code comes from the Indian consultancy that was before in charge of this application, for more than 3 years. I always heard that working with Indians (which is common in IT) was usually risky and the source of many problems… but never actually experienced it.
In the 12+ applications i am now in charge of, i regularly find similar golden pieces of code… Plus, no refactoring was ever done for the last 3 years (but, i will not forget to mention that my Indian colleague himself told me he didn’t have time anyway for refactoring anyway, the tasks he already had were too much time-consuming to give time for refactoring…).
So you can imagine the big mess it is, and why i’m so unhappy about what i’m doing right now.
But my project manager told me some Flex application would come sooner or later in our perimeter…
Nico.
PS: Sorry for the layout (the white pic and the bluie background for the piece of code)… Im still not mastering the CSS of this theme and this is the first time im adding a piece of code…
Now on Technorati!
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Very soon i’ll be referenced by Technorati.
Oh it’s not really a big deal, its just part of the process, you know, to be known on the web.
Technorati is a popular Internet search engine mainly focused on blogs.
Technorati looks at tags that authors have placed on their websites. These tags help categorize search results, with recent results coming first. Technorati rates each blog’s « authority », the number of unique blogs linking to the blog over the previous six months.
So far i think just two blogs are linking to my blog, but this is not really a surprise.
To register your blog in Technorati, you first have to create a user account there. Once confirmed, you have to claim for your blog in your profile, which basically consists in saying « that url is my blog ». After some time, Technorati team will contact you back and ask you to publish a new blog post including a special token (you can include it as an hidden text input within a form: Technorati will go through your source code and find that token anyway). You can then go back to your profile and verify your claim, which will tell Technorati that your blog is ready for verification : Technorati then finds the token in your code and tells you that your claim is awaiting review.
And then… i still have to figure out what will happen 
Now working on…
Just to let you know…
I’m now working to put my personal page into PHP…For two reasons:
- make it dynamic (obviously) – and so add content more easily… i’m even thinking of adding an admin page, then to be able to directly edit and add content online, rather than depending from my computer
- train myself to develop in PHP/MySQL – i already have in mind the future developments i hope to be working on very soon
At the moment i didnt get really far. Im stuck on basic stuff, like internationalization and GET/POST when i click on FR/ES/EN. I know this should be easy but well… i dont really have internet at home, so i have to code without any help online. Its not easy…
I hope to have a first version running by end of November… and why not the definite one…
I’ll let you know when more information comes…
Nicolas.
www.nicolasdaudin.com
My personal homepage is online!
Its not 100% finished yet, but im just adjusting some details at the moment (W3C validation, …).
You can find some info about me, about my professional profile, links to my twitter, del.icio.us, linkedin,… all this in three languages (french, english, spanish). I’ll probably add some sections later, so go check it often!
And please leave comments here about what you think about it, about the layout, the colors, the content, the clarity of the information displayed… Any suggestion/comment is welcomed!
